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Re: serious bugs because of missing build depends



On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:46:13AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> some of you have filed serious bugs against packages that have no
> Build-Depends at all.
> 
> According to Policy Section 2.4.2. Package relationships
> Build-Depends only SHOULD be defined, Section 7 says the MAY
> be defined.
> [...]
> For packages with Standards-Version below 3.1 such bugs should be wishlist
> (wish to upgrade to a new Standards-Version and include Build-Depends)
> because those policy versions did not define Build-Depends at all.

No, just because the Standards-Version is <3.1 does not mean that the
package is exempt from current policy.

However, until it becomes a MUST, we should certainly not submit mass
bug reports.  In the meantime, perhaps lintian should warn if there is
no Build-Depends(-Indep) line, seeing that most packages will need one
(for debhelper, if nothing else).

   Julian

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